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hour (visitor logs, behavior data, and so on). Were told that this software stack should be capable of scaling up to 200 million views per day.
Sadly, YouPorn couldnt tell us about its hardware infrastructure. Judging by the IP addresses of the YouPorn content delivery network (CDN), its probably not hosted by a cloud provider like Amazon, but rather in a large data center somewhere, with peering provided by Level 3.
To put that 800Gbps gure into perspective, the internet only handles around half an exabyte of trac every day, which equates to around 50Tbps in other words, a single porn site accounts for almost 2% of the internets total trac. There are dozens of porn sites on the scale of YouPorn, and hundreds that are the size of ExtremeTech or your favorite news site. Its probably not unrealistic to say that porn makes up 30% of the total data transferred across the internet. The internet really is for porn. Read more about the world of submarine ber optic cables (which carry all of that porn)
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I think that blurred out YouPorn screenshot really added to the article. ;) Seriously though, thats a tremendous amount of data! I suppose I shouldnt be surprised, but I guess I never really thought about it. Guest To put that 800Gbps figure into perspective, the internet only handles around half an exabyte of traffic every day, which equates to around 50Tbps in other words, a single porn site accounts for almost 25% of the internets total traffic. Anonymous The quote doesnt make sense, considering that 800Gbps is much less than 25% of 50Tbps (its 1.56%). Or am I missing something? http://geek.com I think Seb was just flouting ZD internet surfing policies ; ) lol at the search term. sal
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http://www.mrseb.co.u Yep, sorry, that was a typo should read 2%. (Shift-5=%. Sticky shift key. Go figure :P)
http://www.mrseb.co.u Even YouPorn, the second largest porn site on the web, doesnt cater to that particular fetish :(
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Great story Seb. Thanks for reaching out and including us!
Anonymous Whilst I one handedly applaud your efforts Jude I think a little nod to The Huns Yellow Pages is in order for servicing us so well until you were up and running ;) Anonymous Whilst I one handedly applaud your efforts Jude I think a little nod to The Huns Yellow Pages is in order for servicing us so well until you were up and running ;)
http://devcodehack.co Very nice. Thats a comically absurd amount of data but I am not in doubt at all. Also the time spent on the site is very illuminating. Good stuff to bring out into the open.
http://www.facebook.c Work as an intern at a porn company = awesome. Work as an Intern at a porn web company = SQL database maintenance, SQL maintenance database everywhere. Anonymous I do love the screen shot Anonymous While its difficult domain to penetrate hard numbers are few and far between I appreciate the deep research he did. I know a lot of people are tight lipped about this subject, and sebastian is working hard to get inside this issue and really show it from a new point of view. Anonymous While its difficult domain to penetrate hard numbers are few and far between I appreciate the deep research he did. I know a lot of people are tight lipped about this subject, and sebastian is working hard to get inside this issue and really show it from a new point of view. podaniel7 http://www.youporn.com should be a largest site on the planet! Lukens Factual error: -Xvideos, the largest porn site on the web with 4.4 billion page views per month -number of monthly visits which is around 350 million for Xvideos I think you meant per year for the former Anonymous It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a person in possession of a fast internet connection must be in want of some porn. KTHXBAI Orthwein
http://www.mrseb.co.u No problem thanks for the help :) Maybe we can work together on another story in the future? Maybe, like, I can come out to California and report on the technology used in the actual production of porn?
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Pretty sure its per month. YouPorn does 100 million page views _per day_, and Xvideos is larger (and Ad Planner generally under reports!)
http://www.mrseb.co.u Pretty sure its per month. YouPorn does 100 million page views _per day_, and Xvideos is larger (and Ad Planner generally under reports!)
http://blog.youporn.com Good idea, only YouPorn doesnt produce its own porn. :)
http://www.mrseb.co.u Im sure you could set me up, though, right?
http://blog.youporn.com Anything is possible. If you want to shoot me a pitch email sometime with an idea Ill circulate it around for you.
http://blog.youporn.com Ill second that. DIANNEMARK @facebook-1223563048:disqus my fn he mue http://nipp.me/805h2 DIANNEMARK F
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http://www.mrseb.co.u Its the little things :)
http://pulse.yahoo.com And dont forget kids. If Rick Santorum gets elected he says he wants to shut it all down. Good luck with that Ricky. It will be the biggest game of wack-a-mole the universe has ever seen.
http://www.facebook.c Those little things are not that little on that youporn site ;)
http://www.cookiesfrom And touching us. Anonymous I remember, back in the days before WWW, our sysadmin estimated that about 30% of all IRC traffic he randomly sampled was sex-related, the same as the article estimates now, a full 20 years later. I propose we call it the I want mores law: no matter how large the internet grows. 30% of it will be reserved for pron. Anonymous YouTube and Hulu are mentioned as websites that require a lot of bandwidth. What about Netflix? Any idea where it ranks in terms of traffic?
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Anonymous YouTube and Hulu are mentioned as websites that require a lot of bandwidth. What about Netflix? Any idea where it ranks in terms of traffic?
http://www.facebook.c youporn? I never heard of it! I swear :D Oliver Smith
either your calculations are out, or you aremaking somebig assumptions there. http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns341/ns525/ns537/ns705/Cisco_VNI_Usage_WP.html Contrary to popular belief, none of the top 50 global web sites (by traffic volume) featured explicit adult content. This represents a shift in content compared to the composition of top global web sites two years ago.
http://www.mrseb.co.u I think it depends on how you measure that traffic volume. In terms of raw bandwidth, Im fairly sure that Xvideos is in the top 10 or 20. In terms of reach, porn sites generally peak around 50-100th (as shown by Alexa/Ad Planner).
http://www.mrseb.co.u Netflix apparently uses a LOT. There was a report that said it uses 30% of peak time bandwidth, but I dont know how accurate that was. Oliver Smith
for one thing, you are comparing YouPorns *peak* time bandwidth with total internet daily bandwidth for the day as if it was evenly spread, which we know it isnt. Oliver Smith
for one thing, you are comparing YouPorns *peak* time bandwidth with total internet daily bandwidth for the day as if it was evenly spread, which we know it isnt.
http://pulse.yahoo.com First 3 lines of this article are quite impressive :)
http://www.geekdevs.c Theres a difference between visits and page views. Each visit can have multiple page views. Basically a visit means a session.
http://twitter.com/Bulle Im sure theres already a lot of whacking going on without Santorum getting his puritanical paws involved :)
http://twitter.com/mong At Confoo 2012, Eric Pickup from Manwin gave a presentation titled Building a Website to Scale to 100 Million Page Views Per Day and Beyond. http://confoo.ca/en/2012/session/building-a-website-to-scale-to-100-million-page-viewsper-day-and-beyond It was all about the software infrastructure behind YouPorn. According to this presentation, YouPorn reached 100 million daily page views in 2008. They also claim to stream 100Gb/s. They use Symfony2 (PHP), Varnish, HA Proxy, Nginx, Redis, MySQL and ActiveMQ. The slides from the presentation are available at http://www.manwin.com/confoo/eric2012.pptx Tis Look, Im not a huge seeker of porn, but I get it and I believe that people are just stymied in their basic needs & adventurism (repressed). Denying it & demonizing it doesnt change anything. Its a fail to deny- like the tired idea that women dont want sex (& so many women taught that its wrong for them to even admit their own desire)it gets perpetuated through our laws & cultures/societal ideas. Look at the monumental press on gay rights & secular equality, About ExtremeTech Advertising Contact ExtremeTech ET Forums Building Guides Terms Of Use Privacy Policy Ziff Davis Newsletter Signup Moi
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as an example? If we were free to explore ourselves, our psyche, a lot of the aggression would disappear, I think. We all want & like sex- but it is the afore-mentioned that kills the buzz, so to speak? I guess the best thing is to talk to your SO about what you want or want to explore? Oh~ & dont judge? Imho
http://twitter.com/news yes Netflix is probably bigger than Hulu. 20% peak download traffic in 2010 (http://news.cnet.com /8301-13506_3-20020434-17.html). But that is US (and a few other countries) only, and porn is world wide.
http://twitter.com/mike Netflix? 22% of all internet traffic according to some articles from a while back: http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation /Latest-News-Wires/2011/0518/Netflix-streaming-makes-up-22-percent-of-Internet-traffic
http://www.mrseb.co.u Yep, as mentioned above, Im not entirely sure how they got to those figures (and its North America only, not worldwide). Is Netflix really that big? I mean, YouTube is MUCH larger than even the largest porn sites, and it has hundreds of millions of users. Netflix has something like 20 million users Max Renn
How big Difficult to penetratehard numbers This article is like an old smutty British sitcom :)
http://www.mrseb.co.u My Britishness shines through! Hooray! http://geek.com Thanks for the help Jude. This was great. http://geek.com Thanks for the help Jude. This was great. http://geek.com Weve been exploring the affinity between the readership of ET and Jane Austen for some time now. sal sal sal
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http://blog.youporn.com Any time. If you guys would ever like to do another story, dont hesitate to drop us a line.
http://profile.yahoo.com Geekporn.
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http://www.facebook.c For an interesting comparison you should look at internet dating services which in terms of revenue and unique visitor traffic is bigger than porn, in the U.S. specifically.
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For an interesting comparison you should look at internet dating services which in terms of revenue and unique visitor traffic is bigger than porn, in the U.S. specifically. Anonymous I think one day world would understand that porn sites have put our progress years behind. Anonymous I think one day world would understand that porn sites have put our progress years behind.
http://profile.yahoo.com I have fiber optic cable to my home. No, I dont traffic porn sites, never heard of youporn, and dont have an interest. The assumption people only want high speed Internet for porn is ridiculous and it comes from a warped Kinsian mentality. Drug addicts think everyone wants drugs. Likewise, porn addicts project their proclivities on others.
http://pulse.yahoo.com Difficult domain to penetrate? Hard numbers? Seriously ? You really felt it nessesary to go there?
http://pulse.yahoo.com Difficult domain to penetrate? Hard numbers? Seriously ? You really felt it nessesary to go there?
http://pulse.yahoo.com Difficult domain to penetrate? Hard numbers? Seriously ? You really felt it nessesary to go there? Anonymous Seb was searching the wrong place for that fetish. As to the article, that is some serious bandwidth usage and when you combine the porn is 30 percent of the traffic with botnet traffic, you soon realize that unless we get a handle on the bots, there wont be enough traffic for us normal users. Anonymous Wow another 10 minutes of my life wasted on porn
http://twitter.com/EricP Redis needs almost no maintenance which is why I chose it, It is a great platform depending on your needs.
http://twitter.com/Kiljoy Porn good but video conference much better. Watching movies also, maybe that why we need more bandwidth.
http://twitter.com/Kiljoy what bad math
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Though, xvideos, xtube, anderm, certain xtreme specialty sites do >.> (more if you count animations) you didnt think that you didnt have furry readers, did you? :p Anonymous Ill have you know that some of us can last, er um view a porn site longer than 15 minutes. :lol: But seriously, one thing that cannot be overlooked is the contribution of the porn industry to the tech we currently have. They are, in large part, the driver for newer tech, faster speeds, etc Anonymous They are so big that they single-handedly changed culture..anal sex and no hair. Because punters paid more for that.
http://www.moviein3d. One the reasons for very large porn sites is that some of them pirate material from the original sites, in reality there isnt that much porn when you factor that, and if one day they take all copyrighted material down there will be very little left. I am not going to point fingers at anyone because everyone knows who the pirates are, a visit to their site will tell you. Andr Vianna
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DCtt_oeBwc ve ai nosso video.
http://www.creativeme Xvideos and all those tube sites are run by cyber-criminals that steal content from legitimate producers and its free so of course they get huge traffic. Cmon! User-generated content? Bulls**t. Anonymous Just glancing at the xvideos homepage I notice a big ad banner at the bottom of the page for Brazzers. It would seem that the legitimate content producers dislike tube sites so much that they pay them big bucks to host their ads! mc1964 30%? And just one single site accounts for 2% of all the data transfer in the world? And Rick Santorum and his followers thought they were going to make it go away?This is a very revealing statistic. I would like to know how this translates into actual usage by number of people. Anonymous Several years ago I saw an estimate that porn accounted for 1/3 to 2/5 of all Internet traffic, so if that was accurate and the present 30% is accurate, it means porn distribution is actually in decline. Proportionally speaking. Anonymous Several years ago I saw an estimate that porn accounted for 1/3 to 2/5 of all Internet traffic, so if that was accurate and the present 30% is accurate, it means porn distribution is actually in decline. Proportionally speaking.
http://twitter.com/realit Great article, Seb!
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Hardware Stats: 8 Database Servers 9 search servers 11 cache servers 23 app/web servers 17 encoding servers converting videos to H.264 for streaming and scrolling playback Half a Petabyte of Storage growing at 700GBs a day 25 Ad Servers delivering 20 Billion monthly impressions
Software Stats: Nginx and Lighttpd web servers Memcache for caching MySQL with Slave replication for splitting READ and WRITEs Thin Application Each subset of the application resides on a different set of servers allowing separate systems to fail without taking down the site such as comments can be broken, search can be broken, media can be broken, but the website still loads
http://www.mrseb.co.u Wow, cool thanks for the input! What are you encoding? Do you think YouPorn would have encoding servers, which take DVDs and rip them to H264? Joseph Archer
I just want to point out that both Brazzers and Youporn are owned by Manwin: http://nymag.com/news/features/70985/index1.html
http://www.blackxino.b 15-20min to w@nk on Youporn Anonymous Youve got to remember the difference between Netflix and YouTube; most people will watch a 3-5 minute in highly compressed 480p on YouTube whereas on Netflix, its 90-120 minutes of 720p video. Huge difference in bandwidth. If thats US figures its very plausible. Lewis Watt
Umm in the screenshot the last searched for term in Google was furries. Just sayin. Anonymous SO BRAVE
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Thanks for the article, its an apropos and informative glimpse into the size of some of the architecture behind the webs tremendous volume. A further angle is the security. There are multiple moving pieces. Even within the tech part of the
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http://www.mrseb.co.u Im sure you could set me up, though, right?

http://blog.youporn.com Ill second that. DIANNEMARK @facebook-1223563048:disqus my fn he mue http://nipp.me/805h2 DIANNEMARK F

@google-f79b043a58ff6e8c11ed47cbe6e0efec:disqus My c-wrers stphs ben li ff fr 5 mnths o hi wb and ad more

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http://www.facebook.c youporn? I never heard of it! I swear :D Oliver Smith

http://pulse.yahoo.com First 3 lines of this article are quite impressive :)

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DCtt_oeBwc ve ai nosso video.

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